Handle assembly



Feb. 3, 1925. 5 1,525,254

5 E. G. SIMPSON HANDLE AS SEMBLY Filed Dec. 23, 1920 Patented Feb. 3, 1925.

ATES' PATENT OFFICE.

EMORY GLIENN' SIMPSON, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO FISHER BODY COR-' PORATION, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

HANDLE ASSEMBLY.

Application filed Decembdr 23, 1920. Serial No. 432,800.

To all who 1a it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMORY GLENN 'sIM'P met, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Handle, Assemblies, of which the following is a.

specification.

This invention relates to handle assemblies, especially todoor handles for automobiles. It has for its object a door handle spindle and escutcheon plate assembly which permits of a certain irregularity in the placen'ient of the lock without interfering with the operation of the handle.

Inpresent general practice it is customary to provide a shoulder between the handle and the spindle. An escutcheon plate is fitted against this shoulder and locked in tion and before the same has place by a split washer dropped into a groove in the spindle. This looks the handle and spindle to the escutcheon plate. A certain amount of looseness is had s0 that the escutcheon plate can wobble slightly on the spindle, but it has been often found necessary when the lock case was assembled on the door to bend the spindle in order to get the escutcheon plate to properly set upon the outside of the door panel. The obvious reason for this is that the lock-casing can never be set two times in exactly similar positions. Hence the position of the square opening through the roll back varies and in order to get the escutcheon plate and the square spindle in the proper position, in a great manycases, it has been necessary to bend the sp'ndle to compensate for this variety of locations. a Y

It is the object of the resent invention *to do away .with this trou 1e and provide an escutcheon plate that is neatly assembled upon the handle and spindle.

In the drawings,-=

Fig. 1 is an elevation of the handle and spindle showing the escutcheon late in seceen locked onto the handle stem.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the same parts after the escutcheon plate has been .locked onto the handle stem.

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 5-5 of i positely-directed bosses, the rear one 0 being cast with a segmental inner surface adapts to 'fit over the sphericalhead or escutcheon plate seat f between the stem b and .the spindle 0. The front boss 9 has a oylindrical inner surface so that it can be fitted over the spherical head f. It is then spun down, as shown in Fig. 2;, by a spinning tool. This locks the escutcheon plate on the spherical head f but still permits it to tilt, twist and turn thereon Within quite wide limits as the joint is a universal or ball and socket joint.

Obviously the lock with its roll back can be considerably displaced from a true osition of parallelism with the escutc con plate and the roll back square hole out of alignment with the axis of the opening through the escutcheon plate, yet the 1. A handle assembly, having in combina-- tion, a handle, a handle stem, a spindle, a spherical head between the spindle and the handle stem, and an escutcheon plate locked by its own shape on the spherical head to have universal movement thereon.

2. A handle assembly, having in combination, a handle, a handle stem, a ball-like head adjoining the handle stem, a spindle extending from the ball-like head, and an escutcheon plate provided with laterallyextending bosses to engage over the ball to confine it at both sides of the plate and forming a ball and socket joint on said'ball-like head. v

3. A handle assembly, having in combination, a handle, a stem, a spindle, a spherical head between the latter two, and an escutcheon plate comprising a member formed with a rear boss adapted to engage the spherical head at the rear and by the forward bosssturned down on the forward portion of the spherical head to lock the same thereon 'in a ball and socket joint.

4. A handle assembly, having 1n eombination, a handle, a stem, a spindle, and a spherical head between the spindle and the stem, and an escutcheon plate provided with a rearwardlyrextending boss and a fonwardly-extending boss around the central opening, the rearward boss fitting over the rear portion of the spherical head and the forward boss being spun down over the forward portion of the spherical head after the same has been assembled thereover.

-5. A handle assembly, having in combination, a handle, a stem, a spindle, and an escutcheon vplate seatibetween the spindle and the stem, and an escutcheon plate and with escntcheon plate seat between the spindle and the stem, and a cast escutcheon plate provided with a rearwardly-extending boss adapted to engage the escutcheon plate seat a forwardly-extending boss adapted to be engaged over the escutcheon plate seat and turned down over the same to lock the escutcheon plate to said seat.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

EMORY GLENN SIMPSON. 

